There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISI don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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